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Hi, I'm Zahra, current Plastic Surgery Chair & iBSc Surgical Sciences.
My work as Plastics Chair:
- Held one of the largest single specialty conference in Surgical Society history.
- Held a 10-week Plastic Surgical Skills Course
- Co-organised a Hackathon with PLASTA (Plastic Surgery Trainee Association)
- Built a robust link with the Royal Free Plastics department leading to teaching invitations for students.
I am proficient in SU administrative tasks & will be able to make this less tedious for the committee.
My strategy in line with the Royal College of Surgeons.
- COLLABORATION
I will encourage each specialty chair to hold at least one collaborative event between different specialties, universities or in conjunction with the surgical department.
- INNOVATION
I will create a new "Innovation Chair” responsible for organising a Hackathon and AI events.
- RESEARCH
I am passionate about research in surgery and next year I will work with specialty chairs to create a comprehensive list of surgical projects for students to get involved in.
Surgical experience:
- Invited to present at the Surgical Research Society leading to publication in the British Journal of Surgery,
- 2 papers awaiting peer review.
- Observed/assisted in more than 50 cases.
My success as Plastics chair is shown from the events held and the increased @uclpras Instagram engagement. I am dedicated to building on the work of the current committee to make 2023/24 a great year for Surgical Society.
I am determined to increase involvement in Surgery and feel that I have sufficient experience to organise and expand Surgical Society. I can guide promotions with experience as media officer for UCL Tennis and Future Frontline and my role as Assistant Director of Medics4Medics will help me to support the mental well-being of our members in a challenging surgical career. Other experience includes:
- FutureFrontline Current Students Co-Director (recently hosting over 250 students in interview workshops and webinars)
- SurgSoc Education Officer (introducing new teaching events, including year 6 to FY1 transition webinars [from March 2023] and next week's CPSA workshop for over 45 year 2 students)
- Co-Founder of the Pharmacology Mentoring scheme
- Committees for Plastics Conference (2022) and iNUGSC (2023)
- Multiple Surgical Society subcommittees (such as WinS)
As President I would:
- Encourage mentoring and networking between the years through inter-year social events ('Student Stories' panels)
- Support more collaboration so that students can develop their own projects such as teaching courses
- Invite surgeons to networking events at least twice a term so that students can interact with people at different stages in their surgical career in a relaxed environment and make valuable contacts to help them access placement and research opportunities confidently
- Widen participation by building a fund for course and conference places
- Collaborate with charities and fundraise